I can't imagine living on a city street An summer heat rising from concrete Living in the country is a real treat Country life is sweet it can't be beat Freedom an fresh air life is complete
davehammill7347...I am 74 also...)ets look together . I'll start here in New Hampshire . LOL...I had just move back to Massachusetts from Arizona . This song along with the BeeGees , Going Back To Massachusetts and the BEACH BOYS , Sloop John B , gee but I wanna go home lyric , made me very home sick. Keep on living while you still have the breath .
"24 hours, maybe 60 good years, it's really not that long a stay." - Jimmy Buffett. "Enjoy every sandwich" - Warren Zevon. "I just want to celebrate another day of livin'." - Rare Earth "We were children in a garden, with the world beneath our feat..." - Robin Trower (Daydream)
I am 68 and I remember hanging out with my cousin listening to WHB 710 AM Kansas City Missouri, on our transistor radio, we were just kids and we loved this song, sometimes my big Brother would let us ride around with him and we loved this song, AM Radio was great, Top 40 , those were the days
Summer of '61 learned to use a jackhammer , dig a ditch, shore a ditch so it wouldn't cave in and kill a man. Love the jackhammer in this song. Makes it real.
Same. Fantastic opening sequence. And the song got a UK re-release in 95, which coincidentally was a record breaking summer and a great year to be 16 and living in Torquay.
Clásico de los clásicos. Una canción que sólo la había escuchado 1 o 2 veces hasta que la encontré en un remate de discos a fines de los 90, que tiempos aquellos. Saludos a los que disfrutan de esta música, la mejor de todos los tiempos.
My mom and dad are both from Detroit and grew up in Dearborn around that time. When they married in 1965 they moved to Ann Arbor. They didn't have air conditioning until 1988, 16 years after moving to Plymouth!
@@rich_edwards79 It was. I still remember my mother telling me to be home when the street lights come on, or dropping me off at the playground and picking me up when it got dark. Motown was at its height. I went to the same elementary school as Stevie Wonder. I have to laugh when people act like diversity is something new and we now need the enlightened guidance of "experts" on how to live together and talk to one another.
@@Mary-qn2jd I grew up in the Plymouth Canton area and I could say the same thing about diversity as I grew up with it and had a great childhood. In fact when I got to college it was a shock to me that most of the groups consisted of people of the same race.
Ah 1966....a very special year. I was running a beach bar in Majorca.....It was all so different then. Great images....loved the video and the song is classic. ❤👍👍
"On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city." Diane Ackerman
Lyrics Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty Been down, isn't it a pity? Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city All around, people looking half dead Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head But at night it's a different world Go out and find a girl Come on, come on and dance all night Despite the heat it'll be all right And babe, don't you know it's a pity That the days can't be like the nights In the summer, in the city In the summer, in the city Cool town, evening in the city Dressing so fine and looking so pretty Cool cat, looking for a kitty Gonna look in every corner of the city Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop Running up the stairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop But at night it's a different world Go out and find a girl Come on, come on and dance all night Despite the heat it'll be all right And babe, don't you know it's a pity That the days can't be like the nights In the summer, in the city In the summer, in the city Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty Been down, isn't it a pity? Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city All around, people looking half dead Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head But at night it's a different world Go out and find a girl Come on, come on and dance all night Despite the heat it'll be all right And babe, don't you know it's a pity That the days can't be like the nights In the summer, in the city In the summer, in the city
I can't imagine living on a city street An summer heat rising from concrete Living in the country is a real treat Country life is sweet it can't be beat Freedom an fresh air life is complete
OMG!!! It's going to be 100 degrees here tomorrow and all I could think of, was THiS incredible Song 🎵🎼🎶🙏 From a Cool 😎 Kitty 🐈😸, in DTLA.... Loving Summer in The City ✌️
born in 1970 ' this must have been a magic era to be in your late teens -or 20s ' all that free love love ' mum what did dad look like ' he had some beads in his hair & was smoking a joint ' thats all i know 🤷♂️
Tell me about it. My playlists are almost unlistenable now, having to stop what I'm doing to skip ads. You think "oh whatever it's just a few seconds", ends up being a 30 minute infomercial haha
I will make a bet right here...Some artist will see this comment and do a cover on this song and it will be a top 10 hit. Watch. Within 20 years...starting now.
“And the summer came, the New York summer, which is like no summer anywhere. The heat and the noise began their destruction of nerves and sanity and private lives and love affairs. The air was full of baseball scores and bad news and people, made more hostile by the heat. It was not possible in this city, as it had been for Eric in Paris, to take a long and peaceful walk at any hour of the day or night, dropping in for a drink at a bistro or flopping oneself down at a sidewalk cafe- the half-dozen grim parodies of sidewalk cafes to be found in New York were not made for flopping. It was a city without an oasis, run entirely, insofar, at least as human perception could tell, for money; and its citizens seemed to have lost any sense of their right to renew themselves. Whoever, in New York, attempted to cling to this right, lived in New York in exile- in exile from the life around him; and this, paradoxically, had the effect of placing him in perpetual danger of being forever banished from any sense of himself.” James Balwin
Don't know if John Sabastian read that but I'm sure he had his city in mind when he wrote the song. Of course I'm sure it's worse when you're from the south.
I can't imagine living on a city street An summer heat rising from concrete Living in the country is a real treat Country life is sweet it can't be beat Freedom an fresh air life is complete
Damb i aint even played my guitae in month half..i been too busy slippin mt surf style up and out and over steam streamd from sewers to mauna keyhole swimshoots...im a honk in ahoof reppin thee hood now..n the goode ppl who read my speeches i dream to them . They dont knowv Im a rockstar too {fQ}🎸
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Sitting here at 74, where did my life go
You’re still rocking. You’re a legend for liking this song. Keep up the great job. Respect to you
I can't imagine living on a city street
An summer heat rising from concrete
Living in the country is a real treat
Country life is sweet it can't be beat
Freedom an fresh air life is complete
davehammill7347...I am 74 also...)ets look together . I'll start here in New Hampshire . LOL...I had just move back to Massachusetts from Arizona . This song along with the BeeGees , Going Back To Massachusetts and the BEACH BOYS , Sloop John B , gee but I wanna go home lyric , made me very home sick. Keep on living while you still have the breath .
"24 hours, maybe 60 good years, it's really not that long a stay." - Jimmy Buffett.
"Enjoy every sandwich" - Warren Zevon.
"I just want to celebrate another day of livin'." - Rare Earth
"We were children in a garden, with the world beneath our feat..." - Robin Trower (Daydream)
That all depends...what say you about how you've loved your life? STAY TRUE TO WH0 U ARE ,👋☺️
I am 68 and I remember hanging out with my cousin listening to WHB 710 AM Kansas City Missouri, on our transistor radio, we were just kids and we loved this song, sometimes my big Brother would let us ride around with him and we loved this song, AM Radio was great, Top 40 , those were the days
AM .. Got to love commercials .. lol ...
You are groovy.
Genuis their is a reason that reason is John Sebastian
Great thank you
I am much younger and from Poland but You painted just so cool picture that I must do it: CHEERS! XD Hope You have a beer as good as mine! XD
Who's listening to this on the first day of summer 2024?
I am 😊
I am
I am, a few days late. "cool cat lookin for a kitty" one of my favorite lyrics ever
I remember when the 1960's looked kind of gritty.
Compared to 2024, they look absolutely charming.
you bet. 31c outside, 32c at work, and 31c in my apt. loving it
These visuals are always what I imagined when I hear this song
Me too, exactly!
Cherishable Memories.
Summer in the Sixties ❤
I agree! First rate video!
shoutout to all the legends that still listen to this
I remember when the 1960's looked kind of gritty.
Compared to 2024, they look absolutely charming.
Cool cat looking for a kitty, love those lyrics.
haha I just said that before I saw your remark
That's my favorite line too !-- but yes, the whole song is great lyrics
oops -- did it again
Summer of '61 learned to use a jackhammer , dig a ditch, shore a ditch so it wouldn't cave in and kill a man. Love the jackhammer in this song. Makes it real.
Die Hard 3/With a Vengeance (1995 Film) Brought me here 😎👌🎬🔫💰
Same. Fantastic opening sequence. And the song got a UK re-release in 95, which coincidentally was a record breaking summer and a great year to be 16 and living in Torquay.
This song was number 1 on my birthdate.
Clásico de los clásicos. Una canción que sólo la había escuchado 1 o 2 veces hasta que la encontré en un remate de discos a fines de los 90, que tiempos aquellos. Saludos a los que disfrutan de esta música, la mejor de todos los tiempos.
Number 1 song the week I was born
Me too!
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was #1 at the box office when I was born.
This song so wants me to go back to the 60s.
Music and prices, yes. Lack of air conditioning and civil unrest, not so much. 2020 almost took us back to the bad stuff though.
When I was very little my mam would play it a lot.
Was für eine geile Zeit unsrer Jugend. Würde gerne die Zeit von damals zurückholen. LG karin
Makes me think of my upbringing in Detroit in the 50s and 60s. Minimal air conditioning. It was hot!
My mom and dad are both from Detroit and grew up in Dearborn around that time. When they married in 1965 they moved to Ann Arbor. They didn't have air conditioning until 1988, 16 years after moving to Plymouth!
I bet Detroit was wonderful in the 60s, with the music and cars, before it all went so horribly wrong.
@@rich_edwards79 It was. I still remember my mother telling me to be home when the street lights come on, or dropping me off at the playground and picking me up when it got dark. Motown was at its height. I went to the same elementary school as Stevie Wonder. I have to laugh when people act like diversity is something new and we now need the enlightened guidance of "experts" on how to live together and talk to one another.
@@Mary-qn2jd I grew up in the Plymouth Canton area and I could say the same thing about diversity as I grew up with it and had a great childhood. In fact when I got to college it was a shock to me that most of the groups consisted of people of the same race.
@@stevekov6740 I always say that the best way to overlook and respect our "differences" is to freaking stop making an issue of them!
06. 15. 22. 100° here in the city of Chicago. Full moon tonight.
Going to get a little crazy 🤣😧
Spent the Summer of 66 working in Cincinnati down by the Ohio River - felt I was living the song!
Nice period (mid-sixties)film images till near the very end. Great song!
Ah 1966....a very special year.
I was running a beach bar in Majorca.....It was all so different then.
Great images....loved the video and the song is classic. ❤👍👍
66' was one of the greatest years in music..allmusic
cozyhollow - You NAILED it!! Totally takes me back to those days, going downtown between 1968 - 1973.
"On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city." Diane Ackerman
Take me back to the 70s
Nope, 60s.
1st of August Summer 2024 I’m listening to it in Barry Island South Wales Uk 🏴🇬🇧🏴
YES
I'm here July 2024
I've been listening to this song since 1966 😎🕊️😉🦅👁️👁️💯
That melting ice cream at the end - perfect! You do these so well. The whole thing made me wish I could go back to that time.
Yeah, late 60s and early 70s is my favorite time and music.
@@cozyhollow do you take request for songs you can make videos of?
@@christophercotton9048apparently not
Amen absolute favorite from my preteen years.
Good times🎶
Sensational! You got the mood of that time with the best song and the best images!
Superb video that captures the songss feeling.
This song inexplicably popped in my head 15 mins ago. No particular reason 😉
Always take me back to my teens living in the jungle of British Guiana. The wretched unending heat of the equator.
Great song from my youth, wonderful memories ❤
Great video. Even though it ends in present day Roman vacation footage
All grown up now 20 + yrs later
Lyrics
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity?
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city
Cool town, evening in the city
Dressing so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Running up the stairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity?
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city
Great song & thx for the lyrics.Summer is on its way.
🌻😜🔥💥. Thank you.
I can't imagine living on a city street
An summer heat rising from concrete
Living in the country is a real treat
Country life is sweet it can't be beat
Freedom an fresh air life is complete
Great song and great video! Just like summer in the city is supposed to look like. Thank you for uploading!
I was raised in Detroit. Exactly what summer in the city looked like!
Cool 😎 Kat, looking for a 🐈 kitty 😺
Thank You for This Absolutely Amazing Song🎵🎼🐱😍
The timing was just right with the release of this song with summer in the title in July of 1966.
Superb music video!😅
One of the best summer athems. Here in new york over the deacades in the summer time its in the 90s
Hot Summer 2024 🔥🥵🔥
War Summer of 66 contrasts with the current One in the list images
OMG!!!
It's going to be 100 degrees here tomorrow and all I could think of, was THiS incredible Song 🎵🎼🎶🙏
From a Cool 😎 Kitty 🐈😸, in DTLA....
Loving Summer in The City ✌️
Brace yourselves: before city revitalization and, toward the end, real, truly real American living, outdoors, in the Sun!
Cool..! 👍
Do i like the film or the music the most ? Couldnot decide.
born in 1970 ' this must have been a magic era to be in your late teens -or 20s ' all that free love love ' mum what did dad look like ' he had some beads in his hair & was smoking a joint ' thats all i know 🤷♂️
Good edit.
Can someone please tell me where the version of this video with the
kids in the streets
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I hate all the ads on RUclips
Tell me about it. My playlists are almost unlistenable now, having to stop what I'm doing to skip ads. You think "oh whatever it's just a few seconds", ends up being a 30 minute infomercial haha
@@philanders3705 Exactly. It's one ad after another.
I will make a bet right here...Some artist will see this comment and do a cover on this song and it will be a top 10 hit. Watch. Within 20 years...starting now.
I'm 35 and this is the dogs bollocks
“And the summer came, the New York summer, which is like no summer anywhere. The heat and the noise began their destruction of nerves and sanity and private lives and love affairs. The air was full of baseball scores and bad news and people, made more hostile by the heat. It was not possible in this city, as it had been for Eric in Paris, to take a long and peaceful walk at any hour of the day or night, dropping in for a drink at a bistro or flopping oneself down at a sidewalk cafe- the half-dozen grim parodies of sidewalk cafes to be found in New York were not made for flopping. It was a city without an oasis, run entirely, insofar, at least as human perception could tell, for money; and its citizens seemed to have lost any sense of their right to renew themselves. Whoever, in New York, attempted to cling to this right, lived in New York in exile- in exile from the life around him; and this, paradoxically, had the effect of placing him in perpetual danger of being forever banished from any sense of himself.”
James Balwin
Excellent writing.
Don't know if John Sabastian read that but I'm sure he had his city in mind when he wrote the song.
Of course I'm sure it's worse when you're from the south.
@@MIKECNW No doubt!
Please Be Well, and Stay Strong, Will
I'd imagine NYC in high summer is a hateful place. Boston is bad enough.
I can't imagine living on a city street
An summer heat rising from concrete
Living in the country is a real treat
Country life is sweet it can't be beat
Freedom an fresh air life is complete
Nice vid!!!
And of what movie does this song remind everyone????
Damb i aint even played my guitae in month half..i been too busy slippin mt surf style up and out and over steam streamd from sewers to mauna keyhole swimshoots...im a honk in ahoof reppin thee hood now..n the goode ppl who read my speeches i dream to them
.
They dont knowv
Im a rockstar too
{fQ}🎸
👍👍👍👌👌👌ok.
Fabulous footage! Is this available elsewhere, too? :)
When I first heard the song I thought intro sounded like an early aerosmith song but now I see the music video this makes sense lol
Want to know when this was filmed ??
Everyone gansta till a building explodes.
"Simon says: BOOM!"
Definitely like 1966, but I think the footage was more like 1967
Where's John McClane saving NYC from Simon Gruber?
Die Hard With A Vengeance brought me here
Was written about San Francisco not NYC
Why would John Sebastian write about San Francisco when he and his band were living in New York City at the time of the recording?
Katy Perry popcycle
The only good song the Lovin Spoonful ever did.
@1:20 I envision a old motorbike not a jackhammer
I'm remembering a time in which I was not present.
ACE